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Short (5 ft. 5 in.), spectacled Scientist Northrup is an avid detective-story reader but hardly a storybook detective himself. A onetime Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, he joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1940, was in Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force...
...chief of Britain's great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the dishwater, he got an idea that is likely to revolutionize the manufacture of flat glass. Last week Alastair Pilkington explained his "float glass" process in the New Scientist...
...year-old bracket, only 120,000 get grabbed by the draft each year. Thousands of others volunteer, but the fact is that in the skimpy-quota peacetime era it requires little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...
...teaching if he plans to do so because he thinks the people in it are so nice.'' All Riesman's observations deal with professors in the humanities and the social sciences; quirkily, he remarks that "I retain what may be an erroneous view that the natural scientists are less contentious, more generous, and, except for physicists and geneticists, less intellectual." scientist has its drawbacks. "Everything is grist for the mill, or at least is thought to be; so that if I attend a party people think I am observing them even when...
...hour and a half," said a high Pentagon scientist last week, "the man in the satellite isn't going to know whether the re-entry system really works. That's why we need a test-pilot type-daredevil but stoic." The first stoic satellite daredevil has not yet been picked, but last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration signed a contract (see BUSINESS) for the hollow, upholstered meteorite in which he will ride...